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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"timbre"”.
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A cross-sectional study of preference for music using recorded acoustic timbre versus music using sound sampled timbre
… acoustic music or music using sound sampled timbre, and if that preference is influenced by age or gender. Participants were divided into two groups, 10 to 15 year olds (n=97), and 50-91 year olds (n=99). Each participant listened to a CD which presented 17 pairs of excerpts from classical …
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The effect of instrumental timbre preference and instrumental timbre on the pitch error detection skills of university conducting students
… was to determine the effect of instrumental timbre preference and instrumental timbre on the error detection skills of undergraduate conducting students. The study sought to answer two specific questions: Is timbre preference, as determined by Gordon's (1984) <u>Instrumental Timbre Preference …
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A new user interface for musical timbre design
… tools for the manipulation and control of timbre. The study examines the nature of timbre and the notion of timbre space; different kinds of timbre space are considered and criteria are proposed for the selection of suitable timbre spaces as vehicles for synthesis. A number of listening …
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The Effect of Timbre on Auditory-Visual Discrimination
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Non-linear analysis of cello pitch and timbre
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Perceptual synthesis engine : an audio-driven timbre generator
… synthesis engine which models and predicts the timbre of acoustic instruments based on perceptual features extracted from an audio stream is presented. The thesis describes the modeling sequence including the analysis of natural sounds, the inference step that finds the mapping between control …
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Timbre hybridization processes and strategies. A Portfolio of Compositions
… following chapters present time, frequency, and timbre as materials of investigation, analysis, and re-composition, through real time electroacoustic strategies and treatments. The preparation and design of specific software, through the utilization of programming language Max/MSP Jitter, will …
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A perceptually motivated approach to timbre representation and visualisation.
Musical timbre is a complex phenomenon and is often understood in relation to the separation and comparison of different sound categories. The representation of musical timbre has traditionally consisted of instrumentation category (e.g. violin, piano) and articulation technique (e.g. pizzicato, …
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Arty: Expressive timbre transfer using articulation detection for guitar
In this work, we propose a novel approach to timbre transfer. Timbre transfer is the transformation of an instrument’s timbre to match the timbre of another instrument while preserving key musical information like pitch and loudness. Current attempts tend to rely either on MIDI pitch and velocity …
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Timbre perception and object separation with normal and impaired hearing
Timbre is a combination of all auditory object attributes other than pitch, loudness and duration. A timbre distortion caused by a sensorineural hearing loss not only affects music perception, but may also influence object recognition in general. In order to quantify differences in object …
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Trumpet Mouthpiece Backbores: An Investigation of Interior Volume and Timbre
… generally thought to be a major component in the timbre a trumpet produces. Generally, a backbore with a larger interior volume is thought to sound darker and a backbore with a smaller interior volume is thought to sound brighter. As defined in this research, the total interior volume of the …
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Unsupervised Classification of Music Signals: Strategies Using Timbre and Rhythm
… based on the fundamental musical properties of timbre, rhythm, melody and harmony. The first two properties and the signal features associated with them are then explored in more depth. In the area of timbre, the relationship between musical style and commonly-extracted signal features within a …
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Color of Music: An Investigation of Musical Timbre and Color Association
… of sound such as tone quality, pitch, and timbre. Timbre can be described as a mixture of frequencies including the fundamental pitch that makes up what we hear when music is played by a particular instrument. While this notion that timbre evokes different color associations is not …
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The Effect of Timbre and Vibrato on Vocal Pitch Matching Accuracy
… to match pitch when the target stimulus has a timbre close to their own voice. This study seeks to answer the following questions: 1. Do classically trained female singers more accurately match pitch when the target stimulus is more similar to their own timbre? 2. Does the ability to match …
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Timbre and tone-painting in the orchestration of a song cycle
… and instrumentation detail the use of timbre and texture in conveying the mood and meaning of the poetic text.
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The Influence Of Jazz On Timbre In Selected Compositions For Solo Trombone
… inflections, there has been little focus on timbre, the musical element that perhaps most readily distinguishes jazz from other styles of Western music. This paper focuses on the important role jazz timbres should play in a performer's interpretation of those works that are significantly …
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Timbre perception of cultural insiders : a case study with Javanese gamelan instruments
… group). This study examined whether changes in timbre perception occurred in adults who were trained in another culture's music compared to naive listeners. The two groups' perceptions were also compared between an isolated tone and a melodic context to determine where the effects of training …
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Deriving musical control features froma real-time timbre analysis of the clarinet
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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A View from Within: Timbre as an Analytical Tool in Contemporary Viola Music
<p>Timbre is an elusive musical parameter that musicians, physicists, and cognitive scientists have been grappling with for centuries. While timbre can roughly be defined as an auditory attribute that distinguishes one tone color from another, this definition does not capture the complexities of …
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